Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Becker

Man is but a foundling in the cosmos, abandoned by the forces that created him

Pope Benedict

Lent is, in the end, through alms giving, the occasion for sincere sharing of gifts received with one's brothers and for attention to the needs of the poorest and abandoned ones.

David O. McKay

Many banks and independent finance companies have abandoned new-vehicle leases because their residual exposure was too great.

Charles Thomas

Mrs. Williams agreed to take care of me when all the other teachers abandoned me.

Bob Johnson

MCI still has a solid customer base and operations. There is no risk of customers being abandoned in the short run.

Joseph Hansen

Morris Kite was the chairman. I remember the first meeting of that committee, out in an abandoned Victorian mansion that was the first location of the Gay Community Services Center in Los Angeles, which Morris helped to found.

Hale Irwin

(Friday), the putter abandoned me early, and I never got it back. I went to a little different putting style. And I did roll the ball much better. I had more opportunities. I tried to be a little more patient and continue to hit good shots. Eventually, you're going to make a couple even if you don't putt well. That's what I did the last couple of holes.

Gary Graves

When tragedy struck, we could have easily abandoned our commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and focused on the people who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. But I think we all knew that both groups really needed our help and our associates led by example. First, they involved their families and communities in their Fall festivals, and second they reached into their own pocketbooks, like so many other Americans, and contributed thousands of dollars toward the relief effort for the people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Kyrsten Sinema

I lived for two years in an abandoned gas station with no running water and no electricity after my parents got divorced and my stepdad couldn't get a job. So I think a lot about families like mine who were middle class and struggled. So that experience really drives my philosophy.

Richard Rogers

I believe very much in a dialogue between buildings - I believe it's always been there. I think buildings have different identities and live very well next to each other. We always have the shock of the new, and that's fine. The renaissance style is totally different from the medieval, and they have a dialogue across time.

Richard Rogers

Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet to people from across the globe.

Robert Palmer

I'm introverted, and I pay attention to my muse... Record companies used to go mad and say 'We don't know the deal with you. You have no continuity at all. You give us 'Addicted to Love,' and you're a rock n' roll star, then you give us 'She Makes My Day,' and what's that?' But that was a hit, too. It either gets across or it doesn't.

Marcy Kaptur

I have an ability to work collegially across a wide range of interests in the caucus and in the Congress, and an ability to work on a bipartisan basis. Appropriators pride themselves on that.

Jay Stanley

We're not big and we're not super quick but our kids are very disciplined across the board.

King Gyanendra

Let us listen to others, put across our views, do away with discord and enhance mutual understanding.

Ron Hubbard

L. R. H. in Clearing Procedure, 1957:"The work was free. Keep it so."Therefore, although we have no such stature as the Great Philosophies, I charge you with this - look to source writings, not to interpretations. Look to the original work, not offshoots. If I have fought for a quarter of a century, most of it alone, to keep this work from serving to uphold the enslavers of Man, to keep it free from some destructive "pitch" or slant, then you certainly can carry that motif a little further. I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away. You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons - "The work was free. Keep it so.

Nicholas Negroponte

Maine has shown the huge value of using a laptop across all of one's studies. Maine's program demonstrates how laptops can serve as a window into the world and a tool with which to think.

Joseph Pierce

Making a big hit, ... An interception is pretty good. But I like to make a big hit and let them know I'm there. I want anyone coming across the middle to think about it.

Manny Farber

One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.

J. A. Konrath

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

Mark Martinez

I have never checked online. I've always used the bookstore because it's convenient.

Boris Diodorov

I don't go into bookstores because it upsets me,

Alice Braga

I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.

David Crosby

I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.

Lisa McMann

I was a blueberry picker, bindery worker, bookstore clerk and later manager, and a Realtor.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.

P. C. Cast

Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

Richard P. Feynman

I decided to sell my drawings. However, I didn't want people to buy my drawings because the professor of physics isn't supposed to be able to draw - isn't that wonderful - so I made up a false name.

Manolo Blahnik

I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.

J. Horton

We're not buying some report that's going to go on the shelf and never be seen again. This is a research and marketing tool we can start using immediately once we get it.

Jill Nelson

We're not buying outright like Plato's. We're doing a 60/40 split.

Carolyn McCarthy

make it easier for criminals to buy guns at gun shows.

Tom Henderson

Make sure you go to a trusted source to buy your parts. If someone is selling you oil filters out of the back of a truck, they probably aren't the real thing.

Scott Holmes

Making habitat restoration part of public works projects is cheaper than eliminating the species and buying mitigation habitat at another location. With the San Pedro Project, for example, habitat restoration cost $3 million, but it would have cost $5-6 million (twice as much) to destroy the habitat and try to recreate it elsewhere.

John Savage

Let the guy do his thing. It's a unique event that should be encouraged even if you don't buy into the whole program. The guy's been doing it for 30 years around the world, and every place has survived.

Hugh Thomas

Licensing our WiFi product to Symbian was an important milestone for us. It provides a real endorsement that our technology is the de-facto standard for the future. From a commercial perspective it positions us well to deal with the handset manufactures, as they will know that they are protected for the future if they buy from us today.

Danny Meyer

My history has been to grow the roots as deeply as you can before going on to the next thing. That's why it took 10 years to go from Union Square Cafe to Gramercy Tavern, and another 10 years to go from Blue Smoke's first location to its second, and five to go from Shake Shack 1 to Shake Shack 2.

Adrian McKinty

I find it easier to write in the winter in Melbourne. When the weather is good you want to go out for a walk, ride a bike, go to a cafe or something. When it's raining, when it's a miserable day, I just sit down at my desk and get some work done.

Lela Rochon

My father has fair skin, and my mother is dark, and I'm kind of cafe au lait.

King Krule

When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really relax me and then put it on repeat. That would send me to sleep. It was quite obvious classical music, people like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel.

Andrew Pantano

Our cafe keeps the name recognition out there and serves as a place where clients can come in to discuss arrangements or sample the menu selections.

Chris LeDoux

I can remember sittin' in a cafe when I first started in rodeo, and waitin' until somebody got done so I could finish what they left.

Enid Bagnold

The great and terrible step was taken. What else could you expect from a girl so expectant? 'Sex,' said Frank Harris, 'is the gateway to life.' So I went through the gateway in an upper room in the Cafe Royal.

Joe Cocker

We have a cafe up here where we live, we had it open for 3 years, and my wife was running it. But I sank so much money into it... we gave it a shot.

Cindy Thompson

At Nestle Toll House Cafe by Chip, we are excited to offer scrumptiously designed gift cards to our customers. They have been very loyal to the brand, and we wanted to return that loyalty by offering a gift card with 'sweet rewards' -- no expiration date, no parking fees, and the cards are reloadable.

E. P. Thompson

Many people like to eat sardines with their bones, which can be a good source of calcium as well as the omega-3 fatty acids.

Nick Taylor

Mom said we should go and see where we stand. We wanted to get a baseline of where we stood and where we wanted to go with our eating habits.

Keith Willis

Mentally, are you ready for that level? I don't think so. Because I've been there, done that. I know what's expected from a first-round pick. You're supposed to be God-sent, and if you get there and falter, they'll eat you alive.

Rhonda Cornum

One young man I spoke to said he was sitting eating lunch, and then found that he was somewhere else,

Arthur Miller

Now we're eating pizza as opposed to steak.

Billy Rose

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.

Billy Rose

Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting.

Dorothy Frist

When the kids eat in the room, other kids will see them and we hope they'll try breakfast, too.

Tucker Max

Whatever your favorite food is, if you eat it every day for a month, you're going to get sick of it.

Alexandra Adornetto

There was that half-smirk again, playing around his lips, as if he was deciding whether the situation was amusing enough to warrant a full smile.

Douglas Adams

Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have a half a one for breakfast.

French Proverbs

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Mike Mastroianni

Making the playoffs last year is a huge part of our success this season. We played very well the second half of the season and managed to get in as the fourth-place team. I think that was really the beginning.

George Santayana

Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

Karen Coyle

Less than half of our households have a computer. Only a third of those log on. So most people see this as being mysterious technology.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Seventy-four points at the half - that's like being at the South Pole for us.

Paul Biancardi

Second half turnovers really did us in. I think that was the real difference.

David Wood

Mineral Wells picked it up in the second half and made it a much better game.

David Bowie

I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.

P. J. O'Rourke

I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.

Alan Moore

Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.

Caitlin Moran

I was brought up in a kind of, you know, very hippie, liberal family. And it was just always automatically assumed that men and women were equal and indeed superior.

Carl Jung

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Charles Manson

I was a beatnik in the '50s before the hippies came along.

Carl Jung

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Bertrand Russell

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Cassandra Peterson

When I was a kid... I don't know which was more embarrassing, when I was really into The Beatles or when I was a hippie.

Tom Petty

When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering.

Robert Schwartz

We're not surprised that he would try to muddy the waters.

Dick Cavett

Well, it saved her a lot of muddy shoes,

Scott Neal

A lot of our new players struggled because of the conditions. They?re not used to playing in wet and muddy conditions, so it took them a little time to adjust.

Dick DeGuerin

This is a rabbit trail (Earle) is going down. There is nothing there, but he is trying to do what he can to muddy the waters.

Karin Slaughter

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

Shay Cox

Megan had a big game. She had two big shots, and she really needed them.

Bill Belichick

Obviously, we're disappointed. We weren't able to make the plays we needed to make to win, that's why we didn't win.

Charles Seaton

One trip cock on each end was redundant. We only needed one trip cock per car.

Michael Turner

More observations are needed to find out what is going on here.

Andy Serkis

My father was interested in justice, always working for people who needed to be supported.

John Fuller

Now we are being told to stay put, because there is the possibility that our resources will be needed here.

Olympia Snowe

needed to offer a personal, passionate and sincere renunciation of racism and segregation in all its forms, and he did that.

Tallia Cahoon

When I got to Ruby, I needed to know more.

Jim Watzin

LRO, in all respects, is a unique and challenging planetary mission.

Willie Aames

There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.

Barry Commoner

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Holly Holm

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Jan Eliasson

We usually say there is always a ‘Plan B,’ but there is no ‘Planet B’.

Eckhart Tolle

To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Ann Druyan

We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

Peter Noone

Simon Cowell seems like a very nice guy, but I think he's a secondhand Mickie Most to be honest.

Joanne Wheeler

It sounds like to me it's a secondhand store.

Rita Ora

My first tour sold out in Glasgow, and they were one of the loudest. I couldn't hear myself.

Jim Tutwiler

I have a Rembrandt etching. I have a Renoir etching, and we've already sold two Renoir etchings at this show.

John M. Smith

Soldiers train here in their specialty, and then go on to their assignments someplace else.

William Peter Blatty

Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down.

Veronica Saffo

Those are the same vests our soldiers are being issued.

Chris Bohjalian

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Cal Thomas

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Frederic Bastiat

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

Nathalie Dupree

We're just starving and there's no time to eat.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Beeban Kidron

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions.

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Anne Rice

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

Doug E. Fresh

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.